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(5 pp) according to Freud (1930) human nature is
"the struggle between Eros and Death, between the
instinct of life and the instinct of destruction,
as it works itself out in the human species. This
struggle is what all life essentially consists of,
and the evolution of civilization may therefore be
described as the struggle for life of the human
species. He adds that the sense of guilt is the most
important problem in the development of
civilization’ and that ‘the price we pay for our
advance in civilization is a loss of happiness
through the heightening of the sense of guilt’
Personal responses to this statement are given.
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is still new to some people. But in those days, it was practically all anybody ever talked about. If there were underlying laws that explained physical phenomena, what laws explained
human behavior? It is a favorite current argument to say that psychologists only understand each other, not the rest of us. According to Rosenthal (1980) psychic phenomena are over
determined. This simply means that whatever interpretation is given, alternative views must be given their place. This arrangement spares an authoritative figure from loss of face when colleagues make different
formulations. In an intuitive world where all insiders have the right to their own interpretations. Everything psychological does have some level of meaning, even the chatter of schizophrenics and the
delirium of the physically ill, but a science of human nature cannot breathe in such an atmosphere. A science of the personality needs a context in which human goals are
real Freuds View of Human Nature Also according to Freud (1930) human nature is "the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of
destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization may therefore be described as the
struggle for life of the human species ( 122). He adds that the sense of guilt is the most important problem in the development of civilization and that the price
we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt (p.134). This last point Freud calls the final conclusion of
our investigation (ibid.). After World War I Freud felt the necessity of dealing with the larger issues of a social kind which touched the welfare of all civilized people. His
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